A merry wedding: or, O brave Arthur of Bradly. To a pleasant new tune, &c.

A merry wedding: or, O brave Arthur of Bradly. To a pleasant new tune, &c.

Table of contents

A Merry Wedding: OR, O Brave ARTHUR of BRADLY.

§

[Page]

A Merry Wedding: OR, O Brave ARTHUR of BRADLY.

To a pleasant new Tune, &c.

[figure]

SEe you not pierce the Piper,

His cheeks as big as a myter,

A piping among the Swain,

That dance on yonder plain,

Where Tib and Tom do trip it,

And Youths to the horn-pipe nip it,

With every one his carriage,

To go to yonders marriage,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly,

O brave Arthur of Bradly,

When Arthur had got him a Lass,

A bonnier never was,

The chiefest Youths in the Parish,

Came dancing all in a morrice,

Iumping with mickle pride,

And each his Wench by his side,

With Christmas gambals flouncing,

And Country Wenches trouncing,

They all were fine and gay,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly, &c.

And when that Arthur was married,

And his Wife home had carried,

The Youngers they did wait,

To help to carry up meat,

Francis carried the furmaty,

Michael carried the mince-pye,

Bartholomew Beef and mustard,

And Christopher carried the custard,

Thus every one in his array,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly, &c.

And when that dinner was ended,

The Maidens they were befriended,

For out steps Dick the Draper,

And he did strike up scraper,

I'ts best to be dancing a little,

And then to the tavern and tipple;

He call'd for a horn-pipe,

That went fine on the bag-pipe,

Then forward Piper and play,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly, &c.

Richard he did lead it,

And Margery did tread it,

Francis following then,

And after courteous Iane;

Thus every one after another,

As if they had been Sister and Brother,

That it was great joy to see,

How well they did agree,

And then they all did say,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly,

O brave Arthur of Bradly.

Then Miles in his motly breeches,

And he the Piper beseeches,

To play him haw-thorn-buds,

That he and his Wench might trudge;

But Lawrence liked not that,

No more did lusty Kate,

For she cry'd, Canst thou not hit it,

To see how fine Thomas can trip it?

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly, &c.

When all the Swains did see,

This mirth and merry glee,

There's never a Man did flinch,

But each one did kiss his Wench;

But Giles was greedy of gain,

For he would needs kiss twain;

Her Lover seeing that,

Did swap him over the pate,

That he had nought to shy,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly,

O brave Arthur of Bradly.

The Piper look'd a side,

And there he spy'd the Bride,

And he thought it a hard chance,

That none would lead her a dance,

But none was there durst touch her,

Save only Bat the Butcher,

He took her out by the hand,

And he danced while he could stand,

The Bride was fine and gay,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly, &c.

Then out stept Will the Weaver,

And he swore he'd not leave her,

He hopp'd it all in one legg,

For the honour of his Pegg;

But Kester in his cambrick rust,

He took that all in a snuff,

For he against that day,

Had made himself fine and gay,

His ruff was whipt with blew,

And he cry'd out, A new dance a new,

Then strike up a round delay,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly,

Then 'gan the sun decline,

And every one thought it time

To go unto his home,

And leave the Bridegroom all alone:

Tut, tut, says lusty Ned,

I'll see them both in red,

For i'll gi [...] at a joynt,

But i'll have his codpis-poynt;

Then forward Piper and play,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly, &c.

And thus the day was spent,

And no Man homeward went,

There was such a crowding and thrusting,

That some were in danger of bursting,

To see them go to bed,

For all the skill they had,

He was got to his Bride,

And lay close to her side;

They got his points and his garters,

And cut then in pieces like Martyrs

And then they all did play,

For the honour of Arthur of Bradly,

O brave Arthur of Bradly.

Then Will and his Sweetheart,

Did call for, Loath to depart;

And then they did foot it and toss it,

Till the Cook brought the sack-posser

The Bride-pye was brought f [...]r [...]h,

A thing of mickle worth,

Then each at his bed's side,

Took leave of Arthur and his Bride,

And so went all away,

From the wedding of Arthur of Bradly,

O brave Arthur of Bradly.

§

§

London: Printed by and for W. O. for A. M. and sold by J. Deacon, in Guilt-spur-street.

Information about this book

Title statement

A merry wedding: or, O brave Arthur of Bradly. To a pleasant new tune, &c.

Edition statement

1695

Publication

Publisher

Text Creation Partnership,

Place of publication

Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) :

Date

2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

B04351

ID [STC]

Wing M1875

ID [STC]

Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[27]

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99887234

ID [PROQUEST]

ocm99887234

ID [VID]

181944

Availability

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal. The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Series

Early English books online.

Notes

(EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04351)

Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181944)

Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[27])

Source

— A merry wedding: or, O brave Arthur of Bradly. To a pleasant new tune, &c.,

Extent

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts).

Printed by and for W[illiam]. O[nley]. for A[lexander]. M[ilbourn]. and sold by J[onah]. Deacon, in Guilt-spur-street.,. London: :: [1695]. (Verse: "See you not pierce the piper ...") (Date of publication and publisher's names from Wing.) (Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library.)

Creation

Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.

Editorial practices

EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.

EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.